Helen Keller: Tuscumbia, Alabama

As Keller got older, she and a friend, Martha Washington, the younger daughter of the family cook, invented a form of sign language for the two of them. By the time Keller was seven, they had created over 60 different signs to communicate, but around that time, Keller had become very wild and temperamental. She would throw a tantrum whenever she got angry, and she would giggle and giggle when she was happy. Many extended family members believed she belonged in an institute.

On June 27,1880 in Alabama, In a little town named Tuscumbia, a little girl named Helen Keller was born. Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who helped a lot of people. Helen Keller was very healthy until keller obtained an extreme illness named “Brain Fever”. That fever produces a high body temperature that can kill you. When she got better, Keller’s mother named Katherine Adams Keller, noticed that her little girl couldn't see her mother. Keller had lost her sight and hearing when she was just 19 months old. Later when Keller grew up her parents made signs to communicate with keller. However, Keller became very wild because she would get angry and scream because she was frustrated.

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) dubbed her a “miracle worker.” Helen Keller’s Archives at the American Foundation for the Blind have some of Anne’s letters that she had written over the years contained inside of them. Anne Sullivan was born in 1866, and she died in 1936. Anne was a pretty strict teacher, but we can obviously see that that criticism really helped Helen to become a better, and a smarter person. Even when Helen was being stubborn Anne was always right there with her, and she never gave up on her. Anne was an amazing teacher; she knew just what to say and what to do to get Helen to

Clara Barton strived to help people even in her childhood. For example, after she became a teacher at the age of 15, “she worked in the U.S. Patent Office and was an independent nurse during the Civil War (Clara Barton). While visiting Europe, “she participated in a relief organization called the American Red Cross, in 1869” (Clara Barton). In addition, when she was young, “her father told stories of his experience and service in the Revolutionary War, that made her familiar with the struggles faced by the soldiers” (Clara Barton). Throughout the Civil War, Clara Barton tended to wounded soldiers. Therefore, Clara Barton helped many people from the start of her

If most people heard the name Helen Keller, they would think of that poor girl who was deaf and blind. They would think of her and remember the stories they heard about how she was taught how to communicate by a teacher named Anne Sullivan. That is probably all they would think about her. How she was world famous because of how she learned to read through Braille, letters pressed into her hand, and how she eventually learned to speak, however, this is not all there is to Helen Keller.

A large issue in our country for the first two centuries, some would argue longer, of our time as our own, independent, country has been the issue of equality among races. This was an issue that was on the mind of many of the people who were very instrumental in our country including men like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., among others. The issue of equality among races caused lots of controversy among the people in our nation, not to mention all the time politicians spent making new laws and debating, which, in turn, cost our country a lot of money. During a time where our country was divided, in the 1880’s, a woman was born that would always be remembered. There are many things that set this amazing woman apart from the average Americans at that time. One of the things that set her apart was her disability, another was her ability to refrain from judging others because of their race, gender, abilities, or whatever set them apart and made them different. She was an inspiration to us all, and still is widely known today. This woman was Helen Keller, one of the best known women in the history of our country. Keller was blind and deaf, but she still made a huge impact on our country, even in the debate over racial equality. One time that Helen Keller surprised people in our country with her actions related to this issue is, in 1917, when she sent a one hundred dollar

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller. When reading the first page of the National Honor Society Application the words in scholarship, leadership, service, and character captured my attention. I then noticed that these 4 things were crucial to the program and I became highly intrigued in membership. Although the membership of the program may be pleasing to the eye of the college administrator, it seems to contain substantial scholar material.

Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months she had an illness that the doctors thought was Scarlet Fever, this resulted in Helen becoming deaf and blind. Five years later, her parents had hired a teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Keller learned to understand and communicate to the world around her. Helen Keller stood up against

Born June 27, 1880 a baby named Helen Keller, she was a normal baby until 19 months of age when she became not only blind but blind and deaf. Anne Sullivan came to help the little child. She taught sign language on helen’s fingers and helped the child to connect objects with her signing. Once that was accomplished then Anne taught her to speak, she could never speak the clearest but what mattered is she could speak. At the age of 16 she could then speak and sign. Being able to attend school and not only finished high school but then she was the first ever blind person to get a Bachelor of arts degree. Her proud parents were Kate Adams and Arthur H. Keller, her brothers were William Simpson, Phillips, and James Keller, and she had one sister

Helen went to other schools and got help and she knew what many things were and she wrote books and essays. Helen attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies in 1896. It was a prep school. During this time she met Mark Twain and became friends with him. Mark Twain introduced Helen to Henry H. Rogers, an executive at Standard Oil. He was so impressed by Helen that he agreed to pay for her education at Radcliffe College. Helen attended these schools to get help and to help other people out also. Helen was a inspiration and impressed many people throughout her life. Helen Keller was a founding member of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. This was the first agency to provide services to the blind. Helen was a member of Massachusetts it was the first blind agency. Helen made many accomplishments in her life. She helped many people and that only happen because her mom Kate got the help she

I have taught many deaf students over the years, and recently I have been teaching a wonderful new student named Helen Keller. I have been told by her family that before she lost hearing she was swiftly learning how to speak. Sadly, after she lost the ability to hear she quickly began to get worse and worse at speaking. She loved to feel cats purr and dogs bark. She even would place her hand on a piano when it was being played to feel the vibrations. As I have been teaching her she doesn’t seem to understand the correlation from words to objects. I have planned to run water over one of her hands and spell water in the other hand to hopefully get her to better understand the relationship between them.

People calls Anne Sullivan, Helen’s “miracle worker” because she helped her learn words without having to see, hear, or talk. She learned just like a student being taught by a teacher. This is amazing because that’s hard to work with, also even teaching a young girl. Anne Sullivan taught Helen for more than 50 years; ever since Helen was 6. She did a very good job, and helped Helen become who she wanted to be and live like a normal person without seeing or hearing. They call her a “miracle worker” because it was such a miracle seeing someone blind and deaf, knowing what to say in hand signals. Not even having to talk,

Hellen Keller is a well known woman who has made a huge impact on people around the planet. Not being able to see or hear, she did an adorable work to improve the condition of the blind, the deaf, and the speechless. She was born on June 27, 1880. When she was 1, a sudden illness destroyed her sight, hearing and perspectives. According to Hellen, her real birthday was on March 3, 1887 when she first met Anne Sullivan and she started to learn to read Braille. She started her charitable activities after World War II visiting hospitals, bringing comfort and hope to blinded soldiers and the women and children of other countries. Helen spoke out about the need for increased care of the blind, for education to help them to take their place in the

With all the difficulties Helen Keller had to face, she proved her intelligence in various ways. The beginning of it all started with the help of Annie Sullivan, who taught her the manual alphabet. After being taught her basic communication skills by Annie, she was then able to attend schools such as Perkins and Wright- Humason School in NYC. Helen was taught different ways of communication. Keller mastered the manual alphabet, braille and reading raised letters. She was taught how to write her own signature and how to typewrite. Not only did she learn English but she learned several languages such as French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin. With this background she was able to

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